The female gamete contributed by the mother during reproduction is called the egg cell (also known as the ovum or secondary oocyte). It contains half of the genetic information (i.e., 23 individual human chromosomes) that will combine with the other half of the genetic information carried by...
If we adopt these definitions,beliefis the general term for thinking that a proposition (such as evolution) is true, withacceptancebeing a more restricted subset (Fig.1). The terms “non-belief” and “non-believer” can, however, easily be interpreted as implying some kind of equivalence be...
SARS-CoV-2, which led to the 2020 global pandemic, is responsible for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory illness, and presents a tropism for the central nervous system. Like most members of this family, the virus is composed of structural and non-structural proteins (NSP...
If we adopt these definitions,beliefis the general term for thinking that a proposition (such as evolution) is true, withacceptancebeing a more restricted subset (Fig.1). The terms “non-belief” and “non-believer” can, however, easily be interpreted as implying some kind of equivalence be...
Why Cooper Industries Could Tool Up.Predicts the economic recovery of Cooper Industries in 2002. Price of its share; Profits of the company in 2001; Asbestos-liability risks faced by the company.TsaoAmyBusinessWeek Online
Jim Clark's time with Lotus is the stuff of legend; what would have been had he raced for Aston Martin? At Zandvoort, Salvadori could not do much with the Aston Martin. The car was just slow, and a second opinion was sought. Stirling Moss, a member of ...
However it is possible for different parts of a system to have different levels of protection where suitable segregation exists. This must be made clear in the system documentation. 2.4 Faults If a fault can adversely affect the safety of the equipment it is called a 'countable' fault. The ...
A new scripting language called Groovy is built on Java. Java has lost some ground to PHP and Ruby for server side programming because they are eas- ier. Groovy is simple, borrows from Ruby, but draws on Java programming skills and library knowledge. Language interpreters for the Ruby and ...
There was a time when it appeared as if the actor's main purpose onscreen would be to demonstrate what happens when the neck of a Gap t-shirt loses its elasticity. He wouldn't allow it.
That is why, in my book Capitalism and Freedom, I have called it a ‘fundamentally subversive doctrine’ in a free society, and have said that in such a society, ‘there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage i...